Donald Trump tried to blame former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden when asked outright by a reporter if he is named in the Epstein files.
At the White House Tuesday, Trump was asked by ABC News’ Katherine Faulders if Attorney General Pam Bondi told him that his name appeared in the file.
“No, no, she’s given us just a very quick briefing,” Trump responded before baselessly claiming that the file was created by his political enemies including former Presidents Obama and Biden.
“And in terms of the credibility of the different things that they’ve seen, and I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey, they were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden — and you know, we and we went through years of that with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, with all of the different things that we had to go through,” Trump said.
The Trump administration, especially Bondi, have been under fire from Trump’s MAGA base ever since the Justice Department and FBI released a memo stating that their review of the Epstein investigation found that there was no “client list” or evidence that he blackmailed prominent figures.
The memo also concluded that Epstein died by suicide while in custody at a Manhattan correctional facility awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019.
On Tuesday, Trump defended Bondi’s handling of the Epstein case telling reporters she “handled it well.”
“We’ve gone through years of it, but she’s handled it very well, and it’s going to be up to her,” Trump said of Bondi. “Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release.”
